{"id":65876,"date":"2021-05-31T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=65876"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:02:26","slug":"sri-lanka-battles-waves-of-plastic-waste-from-burning-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sri-lanka-battles-waves-of-plastic-waste-from-burning-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka battles waves of plastic waste from burning ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Sri Lanka battles waves of plastic waste from burning ship<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65879 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Sri-Lanka-battles-waves-600x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/island.lk\/sri-lanka-battles-waves-of-plastic-waste-from-burning-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Island<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Tonnes of plastic pellets from a burning container ship swamped Sri Lanka\u2019s west coast Friday, prompting a ban on fishing as international efforts to salvage the vessel dragged into a ninth day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The government announced the ban along an 80-kilometre (50-mile) coastal area, including Colombo, fearing contamination with pollutants and plastic waste from the stricken ship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe will compensate the owners of 5,600 boats affected by the ban,\u201d fisheries minister Kanchana Wijesekera said while adding that seafood currently in the market was safe for consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Millions of plastic granules washed up at the holiday resort of Kalutara \u2014 43 kilometres south of Colombo \u2014 on Friday, a day after similar pollution at Negombo, a tourist and fishing area 40 kilometres north of the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Sri Lankan authorities meanwhile deployed hundreds of security personnel in hazmat suits to clean the beaches of plastic waste and other debris from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl burning since May 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Sri Lanka navy chief Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne said the fire was largely under control and the risk of the vessel breaking up had diminished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cRight now there is no threat of the ship breaking up, but we don\u2019t know how much of oil is still left,\u201d Ulugetenne told reporters in Colombo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Microplastic threat Sri Lanka\u2019s Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said a possible oil leak was the biggest threat, but the ship\u2019s plastic cargo had already caused extensive damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The impact on mangroves and lagoons was still being estimated while a beach clean up was already underway. Harm to marine wildlife and birds is also being assessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cSri Lanka is one of the best bio-diverse countries in Asia and this type of plastic pollution, especially from microplastics can have long term repercussions,\u201d MEPA chairperson Dharshani Lahandapura said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cMicroplastics are already an issue in the world\u2019s oceans and this disaster here is making it worse for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Microplastics are very small pieces of any type of plastic less than five millimetres and could be ingested by fish and in turn get into humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">She said much of the cargo, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), lubricants and other chemicals appeared to have been destroyed in the huge fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Bulldozers scooped up tonnes of the polythene pellets that came from at least eight containers that fell off the ship on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Officials said the vessel was known to carry 28 containers of pellets that are used as a raw material in the packaging industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The X-Press Pearl, which is anchored just outside the Colombo harbour, was still smouldering and an international salvage effort to put out the fire was underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The fire broke out on May 20 as the ship waited to enter the Colombo port. Authorities believe the fire was caused by a nitric acid leak which the crew had been aware of since May 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The 25-member crew evacuated on Tuesday and two of them suffered minor injuries in the process, the owners of the vessel said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Oil residue and charred containers have already washed ashore at Negombo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Four Indian vessels have joined Sri Lanka\u2019s navy in the battle to contain the fire. Two of the vessels were also equipped to deal with an oil slick, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Salvage operations are led by the Dutch company SMIT which has sent specialist fire fighting tugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">SMIT, renowned salvage troubleshooters, was also involved in dousing the flames on an oil tanker that caught fire off Sri Lanka\u2019s east coast last September after an engine room explosion that killed a crew member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The fire on the New Diamond tanker took more than a week to put out and left a 40-kilometre (25-mile) long oil spill. 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